Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bony"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bony \Bon"y\, a.
1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining
to bones.
2. Having large or prominent bones.
{Bony fish} (Zo["o]l.), the menhaden.
{Bony pike} (Zo["o]l.), the gar pike ({Lepidosteus}).
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bony
adj 1: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
"emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of
gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and
cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; kept life in his
wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: {cadaverous},
{emaciated}, {gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {skeletal},
{wasted}]
2: composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn: {osseous},
{osteal}]
3: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony
shad fillet"; "her bony wrist" [syn: {boney}] [ant: {boneless}]
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